Reclaim the Power! Invite to protest camp

This sum­mer, a wide coali­tion of peo­ple and groups are com­ing togeth­er to Reclaim the Pow­er — join us.

If you’re up for cre­at­ing a more sus­tain­able, equal soci­ety, we want you to join us. If you want to fight against the eco­nom­ic and envi­ron­men­tal crises that gov­ern­ments and big busi­ness have cre­at­ed, we want you to join us. If you want to meet, plan and take action with a diverse range of groups and indi­vid­u­als who have shared goals, we want you to join us.

Reclaim the Pow­er is going to be a 4 day action camp and protest at West Bur­ton pow­er sta­tion. West Bur­ton is the first of up to 40 new gas fired pow­er sta­tions that are cur­rent­ly being planned. If they are built, the UK will def­i­nite­ly fail to meet our mod­est car­bon reduc­tion tar­gets. This gives us a real oppor­tu­ni­ty to change the way our pow­er is gen­er­at­ed and con­trolled. The main­stream polit­i­cal par­ties want to tie us to fos­sil fuels for anoth­er gen­er­a­tion. They want to allow ener­gy com­pa­nies to get ever rich­er whilst more and more peo­ple are forced to choose between heat­ing and eat­ing. We want a sus­tain­able ener­gy sys­tem that pri­ori­tis­es peo­ple, not prof­it. This is a huge deci­sion and it’s hap­pen­ing now. Let’s Reclaim the Pow­er and stop this Dash for Gas.

Last Octo­ber, 21 envi­ron­men­tal activists shut down EDF’s West Bur­ton pow­er sta­tion for a week in protest at the government’s Dash for Gas. With your help, includ­ing a sol­i­dar­i­ty peti­tion signed by 64,000 peo­ple – they fought off EDF’s attempt to sue them for £5 mil­lion. 
And now we’re going back.

This sum­mer, from 16th-20th August, over 1000 peo­ple will gath­er on the doorstep of the pow­er sta­tion for a camp – includ­ing work­shops and action plan­ning – and a mass action. With your help, we will shut down the Dash for Gas.

Please share this call­out with your net­works.